On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:08:52AM -0700, Moritz Bartl wrote:
The current routing algorithm is not utilizing low-bandwidth relays as well as it should. This is a known problem but difficult to solve. If you can provide below 10 Mbit/s, it might be better for now to go with a bridge instead
Actually, I think relays less than 10mbit can still be useful.
Back in July I suggested that 800kbit was a good cutoff: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-July/002255.html but of course faster is still better.
Also, everybody should remember that a relay that uses all its bandwidth is harming the network as well as helping it, because every byte that hits the rate limiting necessarily means a delay for the user. I'm a huge fan of a network where no relays are ever full.
Keep an eye on https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#bandwidth or to blow it up more, https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=bandwidth&start=2011-0... As that purple line continues to grow, we're going to be happy we have a bit of spare capacity currently.
--Roger